Thoughts on online trading?

[rosabelle]

I’ve been trading a lot quite recently. Most of my trades are here on TBT and all are positive experiences so far. Everyone’s really nice and accommodating (even when they’re going to bed and all but still try to squeeze in our trade). Also, really trustworthy! I try to be the same when transacting with others. I’ve done some trades on nookazon as of recent since I’ve been searching for specific items (cherry-blossom/bunny day) and stuff you are looking for are already listed you just have to search it. All trades are also positive experiences though yeah, all quite expensive but sometimes I find good deals (1 nmt for 2 bunny day baskets). I always look at peoples ratings when trading specially on nookazon just to be on the safe side.

 

[dragonair]

I try to get all my items on my own for the most part since trading honestly gives me quite a bit of anxiety. I only trade here since the feedback system is really well done and everything is way less confusing and easier to navigate but I still get a pit in my stomach when I trade. TT v TT AC:NH has made it really difficult to get certain items without online trading though so I end up trading on here more than I'd like.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I love trading online for the most part. I just hate when it takes a long time to find someone that will sell me the items I'm after.

I've been having a go at Nookazon lately, everyone I've traded with so far have been nice. But there are so many people on Nookazon charging ridiculous prices. Like 80+ NMT for a Stonehenge, or 25 NMT for a Ribbon Eel Model. Some people on there are nuts. Greedy greedy greedy

 

[niko@kamogawa]

I am only trading in this forum exclusively for a several reasons including trustworthiness and fair prices. The community here being nice is a plus!

However, I do have some other pressing concerns when it comes to trading villagers. I will list them down based from my experience so far. All of this happened here!

• I experienced "stealing." I was able to prevent this by forcibly closing down the game. (That player just went in to my villager's house without paying for it.) In the end, I gave that person another chance and sold that villager at a loss. I am being too soft.
• I experienced "stalling." The story started when I put up a villager as a giveaway and wanted to prioritise people who has an empty plot. This "player" here is clever. That player didn't have en empty plot and needed time to make room. That player resorted on using another account to travel into my island and stall for time. (Obviously, I realised this and forcibly ended the session.) The trick is too obvious because of me sending the code only to that player. There's no way another player can hijack my island without knowing the code. In the end, I let that player adopt the villager.

Honestly, I know these experiences may discourage me from trading online especially when it comes to dealing with popular villagers such as Audie. I may decide to add a restriction of accepting villager trades if a player has garnered 50 or more positive feedback in the future.

I also have minor cases of where people aren't returning the items after cataloging them. (I don't mind sometimes because of the ability to reorder. However, I just don't want to impact other traders who want to catalog that same item.)

 

[Toska]

I really only trade when I'm looking for a specific item, but I also like to give out spare DIYs when I can. Everybody here is super kind and generous, so I have a hard time trading anywhere else. I'm pretty busy though so I can't trade all that often, but I would do it more if I could!

 

[tajikey]

Had one, maybe two bad experiences, one through Nookazon, and the other through TE. Otherwise, I'm down like James Brown.

 

[Arckaniel]

For me online trading is VERY addicting, like literally, the first 300 hours of my ACNH gameplay are mostly visiting other islands, cataloging, buying, selling, & trading! And I'm only like in my 400 hours so most of my gameplay is from online, and I still like to trade till this day since I'm starting to decorate and terraform my island... I mostly trade here on TBT since it's safer and cheaper compared to Nookazon which have crazy expensive prices! I only go to Nookazon as my last resort if I'm having a hard time finding the specific item here on TBT, or I just want to trade stuff like streetlamps colors and such...

 

[Snowifer]

I've traded on both TBT and Nookazon, though mostly on TBT. Nowadays, I'm not needing any items/ materials, so I'm not really trading at all.

 

[Forthefunofit]

I started off only trading here on TBT. I love this community because of the level of friendliness and fairness in pricing. Then I moved on to discord. What a big difference between both! I have found a small community within discord that is extremely kind! They are only interested in helping others find and get items they need at no price.
I feel like I have experience both sides of the spectrum when it comes to trading. I’ve honestly become addicted to trading with other players! It’s fun!

 

[eko]

Trading helped immensely when starting up my island and getting things crossed off my wishlist, it's also really satisfying to help others with their wishlists in return! <3

I've traded on TBT, Tumblr, Reddit and Discord; I definitely trust TBT the most. Had several bad experiences on Reddit and Tumblr, while I haven't had even one negative experience on TBT yet! I think that's largely due to the ratings system? However I still bounce between TBT and Discord for trades depending on the items since when I'm looking to catalog one or two specific items, the thread tends to get buried while there's almost always an answer on discord.

Villager trades on the other hand... I've sold a handful but have never bought anyone before because I like the randomness and always fear of someone kicking me after I drop my half of the trade kajdfhgjkadf

 

[Kitzie]

I only trade if I need something for my island. I mostly use Nookazon because its quicker and so far have had only positive experiences.

 

[nightglow]

I wish there was an a trading place internally on the game through the internet. like the game matches two people who post their items they want to trade away for whatever item they listed in return. or even a mystery trade would be nice to help fill out the catelog.

 

[Skandranon]

trading is great, luv that it can help find things that would take years othrwise or alot of TT

 

[Emmsey]

Personally I will only do trades on TBT but wouldn't say that this is entirely free of risk or issue. I've had a couple of trades go wrong with new users who largely on post on new neighbour network. The best thing about TBT is that there are a lot of like minded people who want to make a trade work or who just want to make someone's day. If something does go wrong you also have at the very least a warning system or people who want to help you out.

 

[wanderlust//]

i only trade here! i have a nookazon account to make wishlists but i never use it to actually trade bc it scares me LOL

 

[Xara]

*glances over at my 1,000+ feedback*

xjsidjdkdk i really like online trading! i haven’t been doing it much lately but when i do, i’ll only do it on here since this is the main community that i’m apart of and i trust people on here aha. trading can be anxiety-inducing for me as social interaction of any kind is scary for me, but 99.9% of people are absolutely lovely and i’ve never had a bad experience on here aha c’:

 

[Jhine7]

I like online trading, I do it daily. I would only ever do it here on TBT though. Mostly everyone is nice that I've come along. I do more selling than trading, but I suppose that's the same thing.

 

[spawnpoint]

I only do my trading on tbt because why not, and I get a variety of things but usually just villagers
I haven't had any bad experiences so woohoo

 

[KimvW]

I wish there was some sort of in game trading post. I hardly ever trade as it is such a hassle. First you have to go online to find someone you can trade with, then you have to find a time your are both available, then you have to go through the whole airport process.

 

[Cyku]

I trade online a lot, I think I would go crazy if I didn't - getting NMTs is easy only during the endgame and yeah, getting villagers is a hassle too (but yeah, I have my "don't buy villagers" challenge) so it's easier to spend NMTs on a picked villager than jump for who knows how many times. And I use TBT to trade 99% of time so I didn't have any bad experiences ^^